Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I will donate $50 to the winner's favorite cause or charity. Create a birthday card by remixing a photo of Beth or remix one of your own or anyone else's photo of me in flickr and send it into the Beth5.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

There have been many remixes of online charity contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them. This way, the contest sponsor's dollars are donated to a known set of organizations that have been vetted based on corporate values, goals, or philanthropic strategy.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2017

Feel free to remix, modify, and share this exercise. Beyond social media, this could also be interesting to use for donation appeals, event messaging, or any other messages your nonprofit is sending out. Although I think getting just "likes" is not a great metric, it's better than no interaction at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Before I go further, I have thank everyone for the early birthday present - a donation to the Sharing Foundation. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? It lets you ask your friends for donations instead of presents and makes it easy to thank them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

" I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. Donations with Squidoo. Put Yourself on Youtube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2008

birthday in true social media style with flickr 50th photo birthday card remix contest and I donated 50 bucks to the winner's favorite charity. I should say that I'm trying to encourages as many people to make their donation through Global Giving. There's a lot of reasons for that. Thanks again to Adam and Mark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. And, congrats to the winner , CogDogBlog and $50 will be donated to his favorite cause. As many of you know, I celebrated a milestone birthday this month. 54 people joined the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Think about the possibilities -- a spreadable multimedia story about why your cause is important and link to donate or to get more information. Or have them sign up for a sprout account and remix it. You can use this flash editor to create your own custom widget for fund raising - adding multimedia content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

There have been many remixes of online contests since the Giving Challenge, so many that I can't quite remember all of them. Some contests don't requires donations to win, but votes. Some that come to mind include: Razoo March Madness which offered $10,000 in prizes for the organizations that got the most donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I placed the photo of me wearing my newest Creative Commons T-Shirt on blog - and of course added it to my Facebook profile and on Twitter , you'll see the Creative Commons Logo with a donate message. That's why I also remixed the fundraising widget. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Tobias Eigen from Kabissa presented at the Web2fordev: Remixing the Web for International Development. Google qualified nonprofit organizations can use GoogleCheckout to accept charitable donations without any fees as first reported by the NTEN blog. He also shares the key points of his presentation here. Fundraising 2.0

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

With the advent of large-scale peer-to-peer events and DIY fundraising, many volunteer fundraisers are your true VIPs when measured across lifetime value (for instance, their donations plus the donations they’ve solicited over the years). More on this in a future piece. Technology'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Donations 2.0 : Connecting donors directly to the beneficiaries of contributions is a game-changing fundraising strategy. Topics covered include pro-social brand development, the real value of social capital and networks and harnessing social media for good. Submitted by Gradon Tripp. Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Remix. -- @NurtureGirl Foundations leveraging unrestricted funds to "challenge" people to engage in philanthropy (S.A. Audiences won't stick with nonprofits that don't make progress on issues and won't donate to groups that aren't having MAJOR impact. foundation match days trending upward.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

(If you want to learn more about mindmapping and diagramming tools, the Web Worker Daily has a review here ) Share the Technology , a computer recycling database that matches requests with donations. How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The infographic summarizes crowdfunding data from different platforms : $88 is the average donation size. It encompasses more than just the transactional act of making a donation, it includes asking for the help of influential stakeholders to create online social fundraisers and reach out to their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. I donated $50 to the winner's charity. Beth's 52nd Birthday : This was campaign that used Facebook Causes and the Birthday wish feature and a matching donation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

And SOPA's enforcement would've involved not only blocking access to a website through Internet Service Providers, but preventing search engines from linking to a site and, perhaps most important to nonprofits, barring payment processors like PayPal from processing donations for the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Taking Action or Fundraising: You're using social media tactics to spur supporters to action or donate. Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. Remember this objective will take considerable more time and effort to be successful. Resources: Jeremiah Owyang, 50 Ways to Use Social Media Listed by Objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

" The holiday season is also time to donate your time to a cause. Mike Seyfang, a nonprofit technology consultant in Austraila, tells us to avoid YouTube if you want to get remixed and mashedup. The Thanksgiving Season ushers in the holiday giving season and the NTEN blog offers a sound off about the state of online fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Less than 24 hours ago, Epic Change launched its TweetsGiving 2009 , a 48-hour charity event to encourage people to express their gratitude using online tools and at face-to-face meet-ups. This two-day event, which ends on Thanksgiving, also invites people to donate to Epic Change. . We treat our donors as partners in our programs.”.

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